Ever since my sister brought up that she had never heard anyone use the word “hipster” before (saying that she had heard of “scenesters”) I’ve been curious about the distinction between hipster and scenester and what they mean in our...

This whole spinach ban thing is getting big press in the west… the San Francisco Chronicle and the La Times have had a front page story on it every day since the weekend. See these recent headlines: LaTimes Story SF Gate Article The New York Times, which...

“New York, rising high, eliminates its pas with a wrecking ball; Los Angeles, spreadin out, broods over its history until it rots.” I liked this quote from David Denby’s review of The Black Dahlia. Perhaps the only sentence David Denby’s...